21-09-2009, 07:53 AM
Ed Jewett Wrote:At that price, I will have to wait for the used market prices to go down, or the comic book version to come out.
Or perhaps I could befriend a psychiatrist ... oh, wait ...
I've been waiting since 1st January 2000, for the "Red Book" to be published and if I have to dig roads or paint the Forth bridge (fortunately neither options are essential) I'll buy the book. It was written into Jung's Will that the book not be published until the year 2000 and I was chasing the editor for publication, but in 2005 after successive delays gave up of ever seeing it.
Jung didn't have to drop Acid David. It would've been interesting if he had, I'm sure. But there are several ways to safely enter and exit the Collective Unconscious and Jung developed his own method of doing so (I'm fairly sure he cobbled together techniques of middle ages Alchemists from his deep research of that subject). The key word here is "safely" as, after all, once doesn't want to spend time honing a technique to suddenly find on the first outing that you're in the middle of the likes of a psychotic episode.
And since it will now sound as if I have dropped Acid, I think I'll retreat.
But that book is mine!
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14